When Long Beach State women’s basketball head coach Jody Wynn thrust freshman Brandi Henton into the limelight as a starting point guard prior to start of the season, no one knew what to expect. Now with 30 games under her belt, Henton has made a strong case to be the[Read More…]
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‘Niners look to erase road woes in tournament
Playing on the road to start the Big West Conference Tournament won’t be an easy task for the Long Beach State women’s basketball team. Then again, it’s been that way all season. Of the nine teams in the Big West, The Beach has the worst overall record at 1-12 on[Read More…]
LBSU junior takes home hard-‘Ware’
It seemed that whenever the spotlight shined brightest or the stakes were at its highest, the Long Beach State men’s basketball team turned to its 5-10 floor general to lead the way. The rest of the Big West Conference took notice, too. Junior point guard Casper Ware was named Big[Read More…]
49ers fall to top-ranked Stanford
Long Beach State women’s water polo team couldn’t hold on to a first-quarter lead and lost, 11-3, to No. 1-ranked Stanford at the Campus Pool on Sunday. Julia Garyfallou scored with 2:05 to play in the first quarter to give LBSU (4-9) a 1-0 lead. But in the second quarter,[Read More…]
Sixth-inning push propels Dirtbags to first series win
Box score The Long Beach State baseball team rallied in the sixth inning for a 4-1 win against No. 15-ranked Oregon on Sunday. The victory gave LBSU (5-6) its first series win this season. Trailing 1-0 in the sixth, Dirtbags senior Matt Hibbert hit a two-run double with the bases[Read More…]
Beach tennis’ conference streak ends
For the first time in three years, the Long Beach State women’s tennis team lost a regular-season Big West Conference match Saturday at the Rhodes Tennis Center. LBSU’s had won 31 consecutive conference matches in regular season play. The 49ers (8-2, 4-1 Big West) also had their eight-match winning streak[Read More…]
Freshman tosses no-hitter for The Beach
LBSU 7, No. 21 Baylor 1 Box score SAN DIEGO — Freshman pitcher Erin Jones-Wesley delivered her first career no-hitter for the Long Beach State softball team in a 7-1 victory against 21st-ranked Baylor on Saturday in the Campbell/Cartier Tournament. Jones-Wesley (6-2) struck out six and gave up two walks,[Read More…]
Dirtbags rally in wild, extra-inning victory
Box score The Long Beach State baseball team rallied from five runs down in the ninth inning to win the second game of a three-game series from No. 15-ranked Oregon, 7-6, in 12 innings Saturday at Blair Field. The Dirtbags (4-6) stormed back to tie the game at 6 in[Read More…]
Women carry 49ers in first outdoor meet
A pair of Long Beach State women took home individual victories in the track and field team’s season-opening meet at the Ben Brown Invitational on Saturday. Tara Ross finished at the top of the leaderboard in the javelin with a toss of 158-09, which ranks the senior fifth in school[Read More…]
Big West Tournament pairings set
A wild regular season came to a close in the Big West Conference on Saturday night, and the idle Long Beach State men’s and women’s basketball teams now have first-round conference tournament opponents. In a rematch of Wednesday’s season finale, the No. 6-seeded LBSU women (8-22, 6-10 Big West) will[Read More…]